Note 6 — Chapter I · CIVIL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE.

This latter hypothesis was sustained, with more erudition, perhaps, than tact or taste, by Dr. Hœfer. A skilful historian of chemistry, he was by no means an archæologist. He had no feeling for the differences between one style and another. See the Memoires sur les Ruines de Ninive, addressés à l’Académie des Inscriptions, par Ferd. Hœfer [20th February and 24th May, 1850]; see especially the second paper: De l’Âge et du Caractère des Monuments découverts à Khorsabad, à Nimroud, à Kouioundjik, à Karamles et à Kaleh-Shergat, Paris, Didot, 1850. His assertions were refuted by de Longperier in the first part of his paper entitled: Antiquités assyriénnes, published in 1850, in the Revue archéologique, (Œuvrcs, vol. i. p. 139).